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ALTERNATIVE PLATFORMS
Lotus Notes, Domino, and Linux: beyond the server
By Jeff Gunther
What a year! About a year ago, I co-authored an article for DominoPower about running the Lotus Domino server within a Linux environment (at http://www.dominopower.com/issues/issue200009/linux0900001.html). Since that time, Linux's growth in the server market has continued to skyrocket to an amazing 27 percent. Similarly, it appears that more and more Lotus customers are taking a serious look at how Linux can augment their Domino infrastructure. While, arguably, the growth and focus has been on the server market, there is an undercurrent of technology being developed to make Linux a viable desktop operating system. The ability to run Windows applications on a non-Windows operating system has its roots in the days of IBM's OS/2, but projects like WINE (Windows Is Not an Emulator) are rapidly making it a reality with Linux. In this article, we'll explore how to set up WINE and how to install and run the Lotus Notes client under Redhat Linux 7.2.
System requirements
In order to install Lotus Notes R5 under Linux, the following minimum requirements are required.
Install Red Hat 7.2
Before installing the WINE package and the Lotus Notes client, the Linux environment needs to be installed and configured. While any distribution of Linux could be used, the following documentation was tested and verified under Red Hat 7.2 with the KDE desktop environment. KDE is an Open Source graphical environment for Unix/Linux workstations that is packaged with Red Hat and many other distributions. Even though KDE was used throughout the article, the equally popular desktop package GNOME can be used. You can obtain Red Hat 7.2 from a retailer or download it at http://www.redhat.com/download/rhlinux72.html.
Obtain Lotus Notes 5.09 CD
While not necessary to install the Lotus Notes client under Linux, this article will discuss how to install the software from the CD. You could also get the install files from a local file share using a Samba client, like KDE's Konqueror. Samba (at http://www.samba.org) is an open source software suite that provides access to Windows file and print services through Linux.
It's assumed that you have some basic knowledge of how to navigate and use a Unix/Linux operating system. If you'd like more information about running Linux, you can find many great references online starting at http://www.linux.org. If you're looking more for a reference or how-to book, I'd recommend Running Linux, by Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, and Lar Kaufman, published by O'Reilly & Associates. It's available at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux3/.
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